Propose strategies that you can employ to reduce cultural dissonance and bias to deliver culturally competent care.
The following are some of the strategies that can be employed to eliminate cultural dissonance and bias to deliver culturally competent care;
- Acknowledgment- With acknowledgment comes to the acceptance of responsibility and accountability to make a difference. By facilitating reactions to promote supportive attitudes, such as empathy, nurses and other healthcare professionals must shift to suppress implicit bias.
- Advocacy- Nurses’ advocacy will help patients in the face of implicit bias to receive the individualized care they need. To serve the needs of patients, nurses must advocate for patients with tact, compassion, and professionalism, and connect and interact with other members of the healthcare team.
- Education- To raise awareness, acknowledge the presence of implicit bias, and reduce its prevalence, enhanced knowledge is essential. For healthcare professionals and nurses, education may be applied in standardized curricula.
- Personal awareness- This is the process of inward reflection to accept biases and ideals that can contribute to implicit bias. An internal compass that is used to direct everyday interactions needs gaining personal knowledge. In the face of the constant challenge of implicit bias, this compass will help nurses distinguish acceptable and inappropriate attitudes and actions and remain on the right path.
Using 200-300 APA format with references in supporting the discussion. Propose strategies that you can employ to reduce cultural dissonance and bias to deliver culturally competent care. Include an evidence-based article that address the cultural issue